Again, I think this idea is great, but I'm looking for at least more of a clarification of the way we will differentiate "regular" mining from "mountaintop removal" mining.
Regular/underground mining does not involve the stripping of mountaintops from their surfaces and the dumping of toxins into local water as well as radical topographical alterations that make land areas more susceptible to floodings and mudslides. I thought this was made very clear various times.
Here is a guide on how mountaintop removal is done, for those who still don't understand.
So you're saying there's absolutely no way whatsoever in which the two processes can overlap? Looking at the original formulation of the bill, for example, "topographical alteration" could be construed
very broadly. Pretty much any mining could be considered an example of topographical alteration.
